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Imaginative mapping : landscape and Japanese identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras
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Imaginative mapping : landscape and Japanese identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras / Nobuko Toyosawa.
ISBN
9780674241121
0674241126
Publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xiii, 305 pages : illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Through analysis of a growing sense of place and affective relationship between the land and its people, this book examines how the landscape shaped a crucial aspect of Japanese identity from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 04, 2019
Series
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 422
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Local topography in 17th century Japan
The "Country of the Deities"
Mapping the capital
Transformation of the spirits
Philosophizing the divine country
Geography of the divine nation
Conclusion: Landscape and national history.
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